Created on 27 April 2009
Now approaching its 10th birthday, the dual-band GSM Nokia 3310 sold more handsets in its five-year life-span than all the Nokias in the 1990s put together – an astonishing 125 million units. This workhorse candybar handset had everything going for it: a large (for the time) 84×84-pixel monochrome screen, bulletproof build quality, standby battery life of nearly a week and a list of cutting-edge features. The 3310 made SMS messaging easy with T9 predictive text, offered vibration alerts and a wide choice of downloadable ringtones. It was one of the pioneer handsets to allow voice dialling and came with four games that have since become all-time classics: Bantumi, Pairs II, Space Impact and possibly the best time-waster ever, Snake II. The sheer popularity of the 3310 means that you can find plenty of refurbished handsets for sale online, with hundreds of thousands still in use worldwide.
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